Nikolai Vasilyevich Kalinin

Nikolai Vasilyevich Kalinin (10 May 1937-7 March 2008) was a Soviet Army Colonel-General who commanded the Moscow Military District from 1989 to 1991, when he was fired for his role in the failed August Coup.

Biography
Nikolai Vasilyevich Kalinin was born in Malye Kurashki, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union in 1937, and he joined the Soviet Army in 1955. He graduated from the Frunze Military Academy in 1968, and he rose in the ranks before becoming deputy commander of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany in 1985, commander of the Siberian Military District in 1986, commander of the Soviet Airborne Forces from August 1978 to January 1989, and commander of the Moscow Military District from 1989 to 1991. After assisting the State Committee on the State of Emergency during the 1991 August Coup, he was fired by President Boris Yeltsin, and he retired in 1993. He died in 2008.